Amazon AWS To Invest $11 Billion In Georgia To Boost AI And Cloud Infrastructure: 'Expect To Create More Than 550 Well-Paying Jobs'
Amazon AWS To Invest $11 Billion In Georgia To Boost AI And Cloud Infrastructure: 'Expect To Create More Than 550 Well-Paying Jobs'
On Tuesday, $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ announced plans to invest $11 billion in Georgia through its cloud division, Amazon Web Services.
在星期二， $亞馬遜 (AMZN.US)$ 宣佈計劃通過其雲計算服務商，在喬治亞州投資110億美金。
What Happened: This investment aims to bolster infrastructure for cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies.
發生了什麼：此次投資旨在加強雲計算和人工智能技術的基礎設施。
With the investment in Butts and Douglas counties, "we expect to create more than 550 well-paying jobs," said Roger Wehner, vice president of economic development at AWS.
AWS經濟發展副總裁羅傑·韋赫納表示：“通過對巴茨縣和道格拉斯縣的投資，『我們預計將創造550多個高薪職位。』
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傑夫·貝索斯鼓勵他的兄弟和姐妹投資1萬美元於亞馬遜 – 這筆投資增長了15499900%，現在可能價值15億。
The expansion of AI and cloud computing has also led to increased electricity consumption in the U.S.
人工智能和雲計算的擴展也導致了美國電力消費的增加。
The Electric Power Research Institute projects that by 2030, data centers could account for as much as 9% of the electricity produced in the U.S., more than twice their current usage.
電力研究院預計，到2030年，數據中心可能佔美國電力生產的9%，這是目前使用量的兩倍多。
Amazon has secured agreements with U.S. utilities, including $Talen Energy (TLN.US)$ in Pennsylvania and $Entergy (ETR.US)$ in Mississippi, to power its data centers across the country.
亞馬遜已經與美國的電力公司達成協議，包括 $Talen Energy (TLN.US)$ 在賓夕法尼亞州和 $安特吉 (ETR.US)$ 在密西西比州，來爲它在全國的數據中心提供電力。
Why It Matters: Amazon's initiative is part of a larger trend among tech giants to invest heavily in AI. Earlier this month, $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ announced an $80 billion investment for fiscal 2025 to train AI models and deploy cloud applications.
爲什麼這很重要：亞馬遜的這一舉措是技術巨頭們在人工智能領域大量投資的一個更大趨勢。 $微軟 (MSFT.US)$ 本月早些時候，微軟宣佈將投資800億用於2025財年，以訓練人工智能模型和部署雲計算應用。
In 2024, $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ CEO Jensen Huang also identified a $1 trillion opportunity.
在2024年， $英偉達 (NVDA.US)$ 首席執行官黃仁勳還指出了一個1萬億美元的機會。
"The world builds about $1 trillion worth of data centers. In a few years, $1 trillion worth of data centers will be all accelerated computing," he said during Nvidia's second-quarter earning call.
他在英偉達第二季度業績電話會議上表示：「全球建設約1萬億美元的數據中心。在幾年內，1萬億美元的數據中心將全部是加速計算。」
In December 2024, Amazon also decided to halt the development of its Inferentia AI chip, focusing instead on the Trainium chip to improve cost performance in AI model training.
在2024年12月，亞馬遜還決定暫停其Inferentia AI芯片的開發，轉而專注於Trainium芯片，以改善人工智能模型訓練中的成本性能。
